HW: California Brainstorm

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 30 Apr 2009, at 06:44, Chris Warburton wrote:
> The production on Xenon Codex has dated very badly.  I think it was  
> the
> esteemed Mr. Jarrett who very succinctly made the point about the
> horribly compressed drum sound that everybody used at that time.

Many strange things happened in the '80s .... :)

Well, I've no objection to a tad of gated reverb on the snare, but,  
no, I'm not sure the drum processing on XC did Danny Thompson Jr. any  
favours -- and there was lot of other processing slapped all over  
everything else that IMO kind of sapped some of the life and power away.


> Mind you, I'm a bit of a purist: I don't think I've ever heard  
> anything
> better recorded than the old Blue Notes done at Rudy van Gelder's  
> place.
> Granted, it's probably impractical tor record HW albums direct to
> two-track with just a Blumlein pair suspended over the band! ;-{)>

I dunno!  That technique might not turn out so much worse than some  
of the other approaches to studio recording they've used. :)  I guess  
there were more than two mics in use for Space Ritual :) but they  
could do (and have done) worse than that. :)

Cheers,
Carl

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